The Jew in the Text: Modernity and the Construction of Identity

Abstract

Semitism, race and Empire in Victorian and English literature Dicken's Oliver Twist - Fagin as a sign Toulouse Lautrec, Victor Joze, Georges Clemenceau and French anti-Semitism representing - John Singer Sargent's portaits of the Wertheimer family Salome, syphilis, Sarah Bernhardt and the modern Jewess performing Jewishness - the cases of Sarah Bernhardt and Sandra Bernhard Marcel Proust - in search of identity Camille Mauclair Lucien Rebatet - anti-Semetism and art criticism under Vichy El Lissitzky's interchange stations Sartre and the Jew the Jewish question in Joyce's Ulysses Hollywood and the image of the Jew daughters of sunshine - diasporic impulses the Jewish family romance from Samuel to Call it Sleep the Pere Lachaise Cemetery the US Holocaust Memorial Museum - memory and the politics of identity.